Why Societies Fail

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“If a society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.” A quote from Robert Frost that explains, that every society is never perfect, if we get what we want, and we enjoy it, it is freedom, which in many cases, does not occur. In different ways societies can fall, even the greatest societies fall due to the worst problems. When even the best societies face the worst problems, the society turns into a dystopian society. Every society over the world face problems, but when the problems expand, the society fails. Fighting in too many wars could lead, to many lose of jobs, money lose, and people dying. Wars could be more dangerous than they expected, and the leader could lose their whole army. Having corrupt leaders could lead to many bad decisions made in their society, also having corrupt leaders could lead to very poor laws decided. Different Civilizations over the world, have fallen because of many different reasons, the issues that different societies had to face the most was, fighting and losing too many wars, having bad laws, and having corrupt leaders.
A major example of failures of many societies, is to fight in too many wars. The wars fought, caused many societies to fall. An example of how there were too many wars fought in, was Greece. Greece fell because of their armies falling, and losing the wars they fought in. Alexander the great caused this to happen. Alexander forced his army to keep going, until he knew they couldn’t go any longer. Alexander caused his army to become weak, and lose because he only cared about himself. Greece fell because of the inflexibility of its armies. “Alexander the Great pioneered tactics to complement the phalanx that was heavily armored and augmented its strengths while defending i...

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